Outright Lands Asian Sales

 LONDON: Outright Distribution has scored more than 50 hours of programming sales in Asia, with deals across the Shed Media catalogue and third-party-produced shows.

In Japan, the third season of The Choir, produced by Twenty Twenty, was bought by MICO for state broadcaster NHK, along with the hour-long catch-up episode from season two, The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing Revisited. TV Asahi took a one-off episode of the U.S. version of Supernanny, which aired as part of its Sunday night magazine show Otona no Sonata. LaLa TV, meanwhile, went for Wall to Wall’s one-hour Agatha Christie: A Life In Pictures. Also on the roster is Flame TV’s Dickens’ Secret Lover.

In Korea, Supernanny will air for a fourth season on Joongang Media’s Q Channel. In Hong Kong, ATV picked up Breaking Into Tesco and the two-part second season of Wall to Wall’s Child Genius.

For pan-territory deals, MB Media Productions’ feature-length special The Body Machine has been bought by Discovery Science for Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, and the same show has been sold in China to the themed documentary time slot SAGA on free TV through agent LIC.

Asian Food Channel snapped up KEO films’ River Cottage franchise, taking four seasons and a Christmas special. The channel also went for Ricochet’s four-part series Blood, Sweat and Takeaways. ABC Australia’s Asia feed, Australia Network, has also picked up Blood, Sweat and Takeaways.